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We show that nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond can produce a novel quantum hyperbolic metamaterial. We demonstrate that a hyperbolic dispersion relation in diamond with NV centers can be engineered and dynamically tuned by applying a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Qing Ai , Peng-Bo Li , Wei Qin , C. P. Sun , Franco Nori

Recently, the field of Metal-Insulator-Transition (MIT) materials has emerged as an unconventional solution for novel energy efficient electronic functions, such as steep slope subthermionic switches, neuromorphic hardware, reconfigurable…

Thermal diodes that enable directional heat transport are essential for advanced thermal management in microelectronics, energy systems, and thermal logic devices. However, existing designs based on phase-change materials, nanostructures,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Qinyun Ding , Yuhao Wang , Guanqing Xiong , Wei Chen , Ying Chen , Zhaoguang Wang , Arup Neogi , Jaehyung Ju

Manipulating the propagation of electromagnetic waves through sub-wavelength sized artificial structures is the core function of metamaterials. Resonant structures, such as split ring resonators, play the role of artificial "atoms" and…

Metasurfaces composed of planar arrays of sub-wavelength artificial structures show promise for extraordinary light manipulation; they have yielded novel ultrathin optical components such as flat lenses, wave plates, holographic surfaces…

Long regarded as a model system for studying insulator-to-metal phase transitions, the correlated electron material vanadium dioxide (VO$_2$) is now finding novel uses in device applications. Two of its most appealing aspects are its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-18 M. A. Huber , M. Plankl , M. Eisele , R. E. Marvel , F. Sandner , T. Korn , C. Schüller , R. F. Haglund, , R. Huber , T. L. Cocker

Planar metamaterials with tailorable electromagnetic properties in the terahertz domain offer customized optics solutions that are needed for the development of imaging and spectroscopy systems. In particular, metamaterials carry the…

Vanadium (IV) oxide is one of the most promising materials for thermochromic films due to its unique, reversible crystal phase transition from monoclinic (M1) to rutile (R) at its critical temperature (T$_c$) which corresponds to a change…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-09-21 Joel P. Abraham

Metasurfaces have emerged as a powerful platform to control free-space light at the subwavelength scale, enabling applications in sensing, lasing, nonlinear optics, and quantum photonics. However, their practical deployment is hindered by…

High-temperature superconductor (HTS) BSCCO-based coherent terahertz (THz) sources have shown great potential as one of the leading solid-state platforms in THz science and technology. Stable, and chip-scale photonic components must be…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-27 Kaveh Delfanazari

Emerging concepts of metamaterials for MRI offer improved image quality through enhanced RF field control. However, current designs are often limited by bulky configurations, dielectric losses, and limited adaptability. Patient-specific…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Santosh Kumar Maurya , Ilan Goldberg , Rita Schmidt

Metamaterials are arrangement of basic building blocks that repeat in space, time, or both. These material systems serve as an excellent platform for controlling waves, such as engineering wavenumber band gaps, flat bands, and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Mohamed A. Elgamal , Osama R. Bilal

Vanadium dioxide (VO2) is an adjustable refractive index material and has capability of behaving as semiconductor or conductor depending on its temperature. Such condition makes it as a material which can be employed in fabricating…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-10 Mohammad Hossein Mahdieh , Mehrad Sohrabi

The insulator-to-metal transition (IMT) in strongly correlated materials, such as vanadium dioxide (VO2), offers a transformative platform for next-generation adaptive electronics and neuromorphic computing. However, harnessing this…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-22 Siyuan Huang , Shuaishuai Sun , Yin Shi , Wentao Wang , Chunhui Zhu , Huanfang Tian , Huaixin Yang , Jun Li , Jianqi Li

Recently, there have been significant efforts to guide mechanical energy in structures by relying on a novel topological framework popularized by the discovery of topological insulators. Here, we propose a topological metamaterial system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-11 Ying Wu , Rajesh Chaunsali , Hiromi Yasuda , Kaiping Yu , Jinkyu Yang

Plasmonic metamaterials and metasurfaces offer new opportunities in developing high performance terahertz emitters and detectors beyond the limitations of conventional nonlinear materials. However, simple meta-atoms for second-order…

Metamaterials are a new generation of advanced materials, exhibiting engineered microstructures that enable customized material properties not found in nature. The dynamics of metamaterials are particularly fascinating, promising the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Charles Dorn , Vignesh Kannan , Ute Drechsler , Dennis M. Kochmann

Nonlinear spectroscopy in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and soft x-ray spectral range offers the opportunity for element selective probing of ultrafast dynamics using core-valence transitions (Mukamel et al., Acc. Chem. Res. 42, 553…

Metamaterials possess artificial bulk and surface electromagnetic states. Tamed dispersion properties of surface waves allow one to achieve controllable super-Planckian radiative heat transfer (RHT) process between two closely spaced…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-28 Jin Dai , Sergey A. Dyakov , Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi , Min Yan

Efficient transmission of elastic waves across interfaces is central to several applications, including medical imaging, seismic isolation, and transducer design. Interfaces with abrupt changes in the material properties significantly…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-25 Jagannadh Boddapati , Jihoon Ahn , Alexander C Ogren , Chiara Daraio